Moonlight Kiss

14. Strange Things.

[Jade]

"You're up." Mother Yellow smiled at me when I walked out of my room.

It was a day in the land of darkness, it was a lot brighter and the star was out, the air smelt really nice and I couldn't help taking a whiff.

"That's lavender and orchids, we grow them specially here and they keep the air smelling wonderfully." She explained. "They are also really good for casting spells as they have a very clean aura around them."

"I'm sorry for asking but I met only six mothers last night, what of the seventh?"

She stared at me silently then she turned away from me. I thought she wasn't going to answer the question but then she turned back to me and said.

"Don't ever talk about her in front of the others but she is gone, we lost her when the circle was attacked."

"I'm so sorry for your loss." I sympathized with her.

I felt very bad for reminding her of her pain but I just wanted to meet all of them so that I could get what I needed done so that I could return back before Mason returned.

I didn't want him to return before I did.

"You should have some breakfast, come with me." She said and I walked behind her.

We got to a huge room and we entered, she snapped her fingers and lit all of the candles that were in the room and the room glowed brightly.

"Finally." Mother black looked at us from her seat at the table.

All the other witches were seated at a huge table and there was lots of food on the table. I didn't really know what witches ate but from what was on the table, they ate a lot of things.

There were lots of fruits on the table, a huge pig at the center, bread, soup and desserts.

"Is this what you eat for breakfast?" I asked Mother beauty quietly when I took my seat beside her.

"Why, are you worried about gaining weight or do you not like any one of them?" She asked with concern.

"No, no, I'm just used to having a light meal for breakfast that's all." I smiled at her.

"Like pancakes and eggs." She smiled at me and snapped her fingers in front of my empty plate.

I stared at her in shock when my plate was filled with the nicest smelling pancakes and eggs.

"I didn't know what you would like to eat." She told me, digging into her food.

"Thank you." I smiled at her, this was her unique power, she could cook or more precisely, she could conjure up food.

I could do it too, with a spell but I doubted the food would be edible, it would just be an illusion but this, mother beauty's powers were real.

I moaned as I took a bite of the pancake, it tasted just like my mother's and she was an excellent cook.

The rest of the witches ate in silence and they watched me from time to time. When I was done with my food, I stopped eating and started staring at them.

"We know why you're here." Mother blue rolled her eyes at me.

Could she read my mind? I was just thinking about telling them the real reason I was here.

"That's only one of her many gifts." Mother tallest smiled at me.

I was sure I didn't say it out loud, she could read minds too.

"What are we going to do about it?" Mother green asked.

"We can't get involved with the outside world, it's too dangerous." Mother black said.

"We have to help her somehow." Mother yellow argued.

"I say we invite Noz." Mother beauty said.

"Noz?" Mother green looked at her strangely.

"Why not?" She countered her.

"I think it's a good idea." Mother yellow said.

"He's our informat, he might be able to give us more information." Mother tallest added.

"Why are you all acting like it's not the cult that's involved?" Mother black frowned at them and they all gasped.

"The cult, what cult?" I asked them, confused.

"We don't speak of it." Mother green said glaring at Mother black.

"Noz it is." The rest of the witches concluded and they started to leave the table one by one.

When it was only me and mother black that were alone, I asked her about what she had said earlier.

"I want to know about the cult, please." I pleaded with her.

"I hope it's not the cult, because if it is then there's nothing that can be done." She sighed and left the table.

I sat there confused for a while before I left to find the other witches, they all did not tell me anything about the cult so I decided to go and find it in the place that houses all history.

The library.

***

I casted a cloaking spell to conceal myself as I made my way to the library, the door was locked with some kind of spell so it took me a while but I unlocked it.

When I entered the library, it was very dark and the air smelt of moisture and dust.

There was one opening on the roof where the star light penetrated in, lighting up only some parts of the library.

I started looking through the catalogues of books but before long I was tired because it was all in the Crypetian language and I had to translate it before I understood it.

And I was still struggling with the language itself.

Instead of tiring myself any further, I used a spell to locate anything that had to do with a forbidden cult.

"Assamara exposeme Latus." I chanted into my palm and it started glowing.

The glowing light jumped off my hand and started moving, trailing a path for me to follow.

I followed it for a while before it stopped in front of a huge statue, the statue was of a creature that I couldn't identify.

The creature was tall and I couldn't identify it's gender, it had a round head with one horn at the center like that of a unicorn, it had four legs, two arms and two wings, it had scales all over it's body and it was a very terrifying sight.

I almost shrieked when the light when into it and the creature moved, I thought it had come alife until the midriff opened revealing a scroll.

I took the scroll and left there to read it in another place.

The scroll had all the information that I needed about the cult.

Turns out the seven witches who saved Jee had been part of a cult, so I wondered if Jee knew about that.

I gasped in horror when I read the activities of the cult and the scroll dropped from my hand.

"What are you doing here?" I looked up into the angry eyes of mother black.

I was about to scream when she casted a spell that silenced me and broke my cloaking spell.

"How were you able to see me?" I asked her in fear when I could speak again.

She just ignored me and dragged me to another corner of the library.

"How did you get the scroll?" She asked me, I did not even realize when she picked the scroll.

She waved the scroll in front of me and tightened her grip around my arm.

"A s-spell, I casted a spell." I blurted out. "Let me go, you're hurting me."

"You don't understand anything." She let me go roughly and I nearly fell to the floor.

"Well maybe if you tell me I will." I frowned at her.

"The others better not hear about this, count your lucky stars I was the only one who found you here." She said and casted a spell to return the scroll back to its original location.

"I wasn't done with that?" I glared at her.

"You've read enough, now come with me." She dismissed me and started walking away.

"Where are we going?" I asked her.

"To get some answers." She replied. "Noz is here, he'll give us the answers we need, for your sake I hope what happens in the library stays in the library.

We both used a cloaking spell to go out of the library unnoticed and we both went our separate ways. After a while, I heard my name being called and I walked into the hall to find the witches and a strange man who was blindfolded.

"What took you so long." Mother blue asked, staring at me suspiciously.

"She was doing something for me." Mother black spoke up and they let it go.

"Why is he in a blindfold, can't he see anyway, I mean he's a witch?"

"This is a fortress and it's a special blindfold, he can't see anything, the outside world is not supposed to know about this place so we keep it that way." Mother yellow explained.

"What have you learned of the calamities befalling the wolves?" Mother beauty asked, the witches and myself made a circle around him and he was standing in the middle.

"Nothing is clear, the Blackners have also come to inquire about that from the council but we know nothing about that, the cult has not been in operation for years now, unless there is a blood motive, then I see no reason why they would go after the wolves." The man said, looking a bit nervous.

I was not convinced with his answer and I felt like he was hiding something so I went to him and grabbed him by the shoulders, shaking him roughly.

"How did they have a mole in the pack, how did they get the body away, why did they set fire to the ice cream parlor, what more are they planning, you have to know something." I screamed at him.

"Enough!" Someone yelled but I was too angry and frustrated so I didn't stop until I was dragged off the man.

"All I know is that it involves black magic and some ex-members of the cult, they're planning on dividing the pack from inside, weakening it from the head, they plan to separate the Alpha and the Luna." The man said and dropped to the ground.

"What did you do to him?" The witches asked, looking at me in shock, surprise and confusion.

"I didn't do anything to him." I said, my hands shaking as they bent down to examine the man's condition.

"Dark magic!" Mother green gasped and moved away from the body quickly.

We all watched in shock as his body disappeared from our sight.

"Was he dead?" I asked the witches who were staring at each other silently.

"No, but he's been using it again." Mother black told me.

"Using it, as in dark magic?" I asked her and she nodded her head.

Now let me tell you something you didn't know, the cult was a forbidden organization, it is unknown who started the cult but it was believed that it was founded by the Great Priestess' twin sister.

Now according to the scroll, once upon a time all the witches, warlocks, necromancers, sorcerers, enchanters and divinities were united as one coven.

They were ruled by the Great Priestess who was a very rare kind of witch, she had white eyes and she was often referred to as the oracle because she could see the future, she was loved by all except her twin sister.

See, her twin sister was jealous because unlike her sister, she was a very common kind of witch, she was a black eyed witch and those were very common and seen as the bottom of the witch food chain.

Because of the love her sister had for her, she made her her right hand woman even though she was supposed to be lower in rank.

It is unclear how this twin came across dark magic, but she was the first to practice it.